[Proposal] Weekly Report

Tue Feb 11 11:30:36 UTC 2014

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>  I'm not real keen on weekly reports
>

I know that :P

You don't have to do this, by the way :)
You're doing a great job on the Technical Side of this project so keep up
the good work and leave the rest to us ;)

> however there are perhaps other on the packaging team that could do it.
> Steve, Parin? ....
>

Indeed. I was about to suggest the same but thought to give them some space
to step in :D

>
>   Tim
>
>
Thank you for everything you're doing.
We need to gain more popularity to have more contributors - I know this
will happen sooner or later because I will never give up. Ubuntu GNOME will
be different, it is a matter of time, trust me.

> On 11/02/14 21:27, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>
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>
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> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:01 PM, João Santana <joaosantana at outlook.com>wrote:
>
>>  2 cents: why not use Ubuntu Planet / Gnome Planet to publish these
>> reports?
>>
>>
>  Hi,
>
>  Thank you for your reply :)
>
> It seems you didn't read this ;)
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2014-February/001570.html
>
>  I am not yet an official member of Ubuntu so I can't 'directly' post to
> the Planet but as you see, two stories about Ubuntu GNOME on the last week
> issue of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN) ;)
>
>  As for GNOME, now that I got the membership, I will do that shortly but
> first we do need to 'agree' on this proposal.
>
> Once done, each sub-team will submit a 'TEXT' report on 'Email' format.
>
>  After that, these reports will be published on our official website and
> elsewhere :)
>
>  UWN is published every Monday so the website of Ubuntu GNOME must be
> updated on Saturday so that we make sure our news will show up on the
> weekly issue ;)
>
>
>
>
>>   João Santana
>>
>
>  Thank you!
>
>
>
>>
>> Enviado pelo meu Windows Phone
>>  ------------------------------
>> De: Ali/amjjawad <amjjawad at gnome.org>
>> Enviada em: 09/02/2014 13:00
>> Para: ubuntu-gnome <ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Assunto: [Proposal] Weekly Report
>>
>>     Hi Everyone,
>>
>>  First of all, I know I've been away from real action lately due to some
>> problems I'm having. Some of these that I can share with you here is my
>> inbox is receiving more than 100 emails daily and I'm totally lost.
>> However, that should be fixed now. I have created new email for everything
>> that is not Ubuntu GNOME related and updated all my subscriptions. It is
>> really hard to handle many projects at the very same time :)
>>
>>  Second of all, I've been thinking a lot of how to get the best of the
>> Sub-Teams, how to improve the internal communications, how to overcome the
>> endless issue of having a monthly meeting and above all, how to let our
>> users and even the members of this community to stay 'up-to-date' with each
>> and everything that is going on.
>>
>>  If truth to be told, the idea that I am going to propose has come as a
>> hint from a friend who has nothing to do with Ubuntu GNOME but we were
>> chatting the other day and he told me this:
>>
>>  *"In Germany the people prefer official flavors like Lubuntu. The only
>> unofficial flavor of Ubuntu that is "popular" is Bodhi Linux, I think
>> mainly because Jeff Hoogland is communicative and tells the world what's
>> going on. He has a blog, where he shares his experiences with Bodhi Linux
>> development."*
>>
>>    The above statement/paragraph made me think a lot.
>>  I was about to propose that our development team starts to share some
>> news about what exactly they're doing. Not everyone has a technical
>> background and most if not all the whole world would like to know what is
>> going on with Ubuntu GNOME.
>>
>>  I think this is a *key success *not just to improve the internal
>> communications between team members and/or improve things but to *gain
>> more and more popularity*. When you tell people about what we do, that
>> is an easy way to attract people to join. If other developers will
>> understand what exactly is happening, they might join. Other Non-Technical
>> people might also be interested to join. IMHO, this is MUCH BETTER than
>> keep nagging on our Social Media Channels and beg for more help. Tell you
>> the truth, it just not working anymore. I am not interested to post any
>> call of help because simply people don't like that anymore. I can tell that
>> because only very few who click "Like" or "+1" and this will do the
>> opposite - losing interested people. That is *NOT* what we need.
>>
>>  That said, my final proposal is:
>>
>>  Each Leader/Driver of each Sub-Team of Ubuntu GNOME needs to provide a
>> Weekly Report of what is going on with his/her team.
>>
>>  Yes, that is indeed what the Blueprints are for but NOT everyone is
>> familiar with that. Above all and this is what I personally care for, the
>> users can't really understand anything from a blueprint.
>>
>>  These Weekly Reports should be in form of 'Email' not a Wiki Page, not
>> a blueprint, nothing complicated. Just a simple and plain email.
>>
>> These Weekly Reports will be posted on our website and social media
>> channels every week.
>>
>>  Each Monday (for example), we will share our reports with the whole
>> world so submission should be before that.
>>
>>  News, Updates, Plans, stuff like that. That is all about. No Technical
>> stuff or things that hard to understand. Just interesting things that the
>> world needs to know about us.
>>
>>  Each Sub-Team has a mailing list. It is time to use these :)
>>
>>  I am excited and willing to start right now but as always, I do need
>> your opinion.
>>
>>  I trust this idea will make Ubuntu GNOME more popular. Bring more
>> interested people to contribute. This is much better than posting a Wiki
>> Page link and ask people to join. Much more effective that sharing a
>> blueprint link and ask people to read/follow.
>>
>>  We do have a website and social media channels. Let's get the best of
>> these otherwise, IMHO, these channels are totally useless if we won't use
>> them the best way.
>>
>>  This is a proposal. Feel free to agree/disagree and I care for your
>> feedback either way:
>>
>>  +1 = Agreed.
>>  0 = I don't know.
>>  -1 = Disagree.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>
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>>  amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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